Films & Events

As part of our “Nobody’s perfect!” Billy Wilder season, we are very pleased to present six free dementia friendly screenings for people living with dementia and their carers.

From Pawel Pawilkowski, Oscar and Bafta winning filmaker of Ida and Cold War. Nobel-winning author Thomas Mann and his grown up daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller - The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall) - actress, writer and rally driver, return to post-war Germany and find themselves adrift as they navigate family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

Oscar winner Taika Waititi’s luminous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel sees Jenna Ortega play an enthusiastic artificial friend desperate to find a loving home.

Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star in Ken Russell's The Devils, a landmark exploration of religious persecution, hysteria and institutional corruption. Showing here for the first time ever in a new restoration of Russell's original unseen vision.

A wonderfully eccentric fable which, at its core, is witty and big-hearted love story between a fishmonger and her made-to-measure husband starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Peter Dinklage.

Come and join us to welcome back the wonderful Lillian Henley as we return to her live accompaniment of this tremendous, ravishing and tense account of Ernest Shackleton's trip to the South Pole.

A genre-defying majestic epic, rooted in the legacy of beloved writer Federico García Lorca. Following three men connected across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017, this wonder is rich with Lorca's poetry, suffused with desire, grief and hope - both an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and history.

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup to oust Salvador Allende, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). From the Oscar/Bafta winnng director of The Banshees of Inisherin.

Cliftonville has been filled with places to see a film since the dawn of moving pictures! Join us at Margate Film Festival 2026 to discover them all, in person and on foot.